Dylan Quotes · Page 4

I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that…

— Justin Townes Earle

The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night.…

— Christopher Titus

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life…

— Sean Wilentz

We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't…

— Buzz Osborne

I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just…

— George Thorogood

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever…

— Tom Chapin

Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt,…

— Bob Dylan

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

— Quentin Tarantino

We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were…

— Mavis Staples

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

— Jay Michaelson

I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken,

— Townes Van Zandt

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of…

— Steve Earle

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I…

— Steve Earle

I think Bob [Dylan] told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he…

— Ralph Stanley

The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my…

— Bruce Springsteen

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

— Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

— Bob Dylan

I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early…

— Cass Sunstein

As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders…

— Julie Garwood

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

— Al Kooper

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard.…

— Shane McCrae

When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or…

— Nat Hentoff

I am a Bob Dylan fan.

— Tim Kaine

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

— Jason Reeves